When ritualistic murders marked with impossible symbols shake 1980s New York, a broken janitor with fading memories and a detective who forgets her own past discover they’re bound to an ancient protocol designed not to save humanity—but to witness its collapse.

SYNOPSIS:

Set in 1980s New York City, Witness Protocol unfolds as a series of ritualistic murders unsettle the city—each victim marked with an identical, impossible spiral carved into their chest. The killings appear random at first, but Detective Josephine “Joe” Jordan, a seasoned investigator struggling with unexplained memory loss, senses a pattern she cannot consciously remember—but cannot ignore.

At the center of the case is Luca Brown, a quiet, addicted janitor working night shifts at Yankee Stadium. Luca lives on the margins, haunted by gaps in his past and flashes of symbols he doesn’t understand. When he discovers one of the victims, Luca becomes entangled in the investigation—unaware that the murders are not only connected to him, but designed to awaken him.

As Joe digs deeper, she realizes the symbols are not religious or criminal—they are signals. They originate from a hidden belief system known as The Circle, a clandestine group attempting to resurrect a forgotten protocol buried deep within human history. Their goal is not power or salvation, but remembrance: to awaken something that was deliberately erased when reality itself fractured long ago.

Through fragmented memories, suppressed childhood connections, and recurring visions, Joe and Luca discover they share a past neither of them fully remembers—one shaped by experiments, disappearances, and a system designed to strip memory from those who came too close to forbidden knowledge. Joe’s nightly ritual of documenting her life becomes her only defense against a force that feeds on forgetting.

Meanwhile, a third figure moves through the shadows: Zero, a timeless enforcer capable of erasing people—and entire timelines—from existence. Neither hero nor villain, Zero hunts those who attempt to restore what was meant to stay buried. His presence confirms a terrifying truth: the murders are accelerating a countdown, and memory itself has become a battleground.

As the spiral widens—from private alleys to public spaces and political targets—the city transforms into an unwitting ritual site. Luca finally confronts the truth of his identity: he was never meant to stop the collapse of humanity. He was built to witness it—to remember what the world chooses to forget when it ends itself.

In a final confrontation that blurs the line between past and present, choice and programming, Luca must decide whether to fulfill his purpose or break the cycle, knowing that remembering the truth may cost him his life, his humanity, or the world itself.

Witness Protocol is a metaphysical sci-fi thriller about memory, identity, and the price of survival, where the greatest threat is not destruction, but forgetting.